India, April 16 -- Melinda Gates got candid about her ex-husband Bill Gates' "deeply disturbing" ties with Jeffrey Epstein in her new memoir, The Next Day. The 60-year-old confessed that she began having nightmares, which made her realise how troubled her marriage to the Microsoft founder actually was.

"That October, things had reached a fever pitch when The New York Times published a deeply disturbing article that raised serious questions about Bill's conduct - questions that suggested he had betrayed not only our marriage but also my values," Melinda wrote, per Page Six.

The bombshell article, which was published in 2019, claimed that Bill had met the disgraced financier on "numerous occasions." One of those meetings allegedly lasted ...